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Australian election
2025

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News

  • The leader of the opposition, Peter Dutton

    Peter Dutton insists he ‘believes in climate change’ after refusing to say if impacts of global heating worsening

    Climate scientists, environmentalists, Labor and Greens condemn opposition leader for comments at Wednesday election debate
  • Zoe Daniel

    Zoe Daniel says team had nothing to do with Climate 200-backed robocall criticised by Coalition

  • Bridget McKenzie

    Bridget McKenzie admits she was wrong to claim Russia and China want Albanese to win election

  • Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton

    Dutton admits he made mistake on Indonesia in ABC leaders’ debate as Albanese evasive on electricity prices

  • Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton

    Dutton and Albanese face off in second debate – as it happened

  • Australian housing minister Clare O’Neil

    O’Neil says Coalition housing policy a ‘melange of weird things’ as data shows Labor behind on building target

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In depth

  • Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton

    The trend is in, but Australian voters’ views are soft and fragmented – how should we read the polls?

  • Opposition leader Peter Dutton

    Dutton looks shaky as he fights Albanese to a draw at best – and he’s fast running out of chances to get ahead

    Opposition leader and prime minister both dodge questions during ABC’s leaders debate, but one still has a mountain to climb before the election
  • Composite of Peter Dutton (left) and Donald Trump (right) with a Parliament house cutout in the background.

    Too much like Trump? Australia’s opposition leader Peter Dutton risks turning off voters

    Dutton has taken the Liberal party further to the right, but his strategy of aping the US president could be unravelling as Trump tariffs cause chaos
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Opinion

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    Is home ownership beyond your wildest dreams?

  • Paula Matthewson

    This election, Peter Dutton leaves us, the female Liberal diaspora, in no better place than 2022

    Paula Matthewson
  • Greg Jericho

    Excuse my cynicism, but after 25 years of the same housing policies, could Australian leaders try something else?

    Greg Jericho

  • Housing, health, the economy, education and the environment – our assessment on the key questions in the leaders’ debate

  • More bulk billing will ease the cost of living. But what Australia’s health system really needs is genuine reform

    Stephen Duckett

  • Elections are no longer a binary contest – independents of all persuasions make for a noisier political discourse

    Peter Lewis

  • Is this the worst most boring election campaign ever? Will voting make any difference?

  • Home ownership is slipping out of reach for many Australians. Will the major parties’ promises make a difference?

    Brendan Coates

  • The housing policies of both major parties are bad for Australia’s aspiring homebuyers

    Saul Eslake

  • Dutton’s backflipping and clumsy delivery has him spiralling in the polls. What happened?

    Malcolm Farr

Anywhere but Canberra

  • Composite of Federico Canas Velasco with Anywhere but Canberra graphics

    The Sydney student: ‘My trust in government has diminished’

  • For 2025 Federal election Anywhere but Canberra series. Holli Brunckhorst is a 23-year-old early childhood educator, nanny and babysitter who lives in a tiny studio apartment on a major road in the suburb of Windsor. Her electorate is Brisbane – which is held by the Greens but is a three-way contest with both the major parties. Steep rents and the price of groceries are her most pressing issues. Australia

    The Brisbane nanny: ‘I had my rent under control, but now they are raising it’

    Holli Brunckhorst gets by on income from two part-time jobs, but says her optimism for the future is dented by the cost of housing and groceries
  • Composite for Anywhere but Canberra series on John Sparrow from the Lower Murray region in South Australia.

    The South Australian retired farmer: ‘I only vote because I’ve got to’

    John Sparrow retired to a property near Tailem Bend after a lifetime working in agriculture. He has nine grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren, and is worried they won’t be able to buy a house
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Data and interactive guides

  • Who will win the next Australian election? 2025 poll tracker composite image showing Anthony Albanese, Peter Dutton and Parliament House in Australia. The latest results from a poll of the national opinion polls, surveys and research tracking support and opposition for Labor and the Coalition, including Newspoll, YouGov, Essential, Roy Morgan, RedBridge and Resolve.

    Australian election 2025 poll tracker: Labor v Coalition latest opinion polls results

    See how the next federal election is shaping up with Guardian Australia’s statistical model, which combines all opinion polls to get a better estimate of the two-party preferred vote

Podcasts

  • Leader of the Opposition Peter Dutton at a petrol station in Rockbank

    ​Guardian Essential report:​ as Labor pulls further ahead, can Dutton outmanoeuvre Albanese? – Australian Politics podcast

  • The flagpole and the exterior is seen of Parliament House in Canberra

    Rebecca Huntley on the threat to democracy of isolation and distrust – Full Story podcast

    Social researcher Rebecca Huntley speaks to Nour Haydar about how decreasing participation in society and declining interest in the news are profoundly changing the character of the country – and reshaping our politics
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    Back to back Barries: can Dutton save his campaign?

    Barrie Cassidy and Tony Barry examine Peter Dutton’s surprise backflip on his work-from-home policy and ask: what can the Coalition do to recover from a bad week?
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Video and pictures

  • Unfortunate camera framing, an unfortunate handshake attempt, and an unfortunate attempt to connect with the youth, all in this week's campaign
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    The housing crisis isn't sparing Peter Dutton's son, and Albanese won't spare a hug – video

  • The opposition leader demurred on whether climate change was exacerbating weather events
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    'I'm not a scientist': Dutton responds to climate change question in ABC leaders' debate – video

  • Labor's housing minister Clare O’Neil debates Liberal MP Michael Sukkar at the National Press Club on housing policy
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    Coalition's super policy will 'significantly disadvantage women', housing minister says – video

  • Krishani Dhanji walks you through the last few days of the campaign, from competing housing policies to the Liberal party's apparent shot at connecting with the youth through song
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    Labor and Liberal duelling housing policies, and a diss track – TLDR: Election 2025 – video

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